Thursday Thoughts on Money, Money, Money

Money, for all it may posses

Can never buy us happiness

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Money, for all that it may boast

Can’t buy the things that matter most

Love,

Joy.

Hope.

Peace.

Forgiveness.

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I’ve yet to see a shopping spree

That satisfies our Want

Money, the root of evil wields

And endless, endless taunt

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We cannot serve God and mammon too

We are either servant or slave

Our life, the mirror we look into

That reflects what we crave

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A diller, a dollar, on hill er in holler

A teacher or scholar are we

A pocket of penny-like moments to spend

Before eternity

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Stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff

Tell me, when is it enough?!

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It is not the amount we give

To coffers of earth

But the heart we give it with

That decides its worth

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Come, let us reason together

If money is the idol of greed

We should not be so bent to keep

More of it than we need

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Money and Time, We never have enough, or so it seems

Yet it is the giving of both of these that our Lord esteems

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The only things of worth

That surpass these few days we live

Are not the treasures we stockpile on earth

But only what we give

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We all should learn to take

We all should learn to give

For both have much to teach about

The way we ought to live

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Pray, that our goals are not controlled

By the dollars we crave

The rich man and the beggar

Are equal within the grave

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If we would be wealthy in what matters most

Then we would be wise to seek God’s Kingdom first

What good is vanity’s asset and boast

Where Time’s Soul-goal cannot be reimbursed

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Lord, you perceive the heart of us

Where skin does not reveal

Full truth, yet those who love you first

Cannot Your love conceal

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So let us consider

To what end we amount

…a most important matter

Of giving account

© Janet Martin